Now back in print--the classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in ''Salon'' called, ''a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.''

Now back in print--the classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in ''Salon'' called, ''a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.''